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Hi Sagar,

I found that strange at the beginning also. Moz updates slower than Search Console from Google. More on Link Index Updates you can find on: https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer/updates

Hope it helps and don't worry ;).

Tymen

Hi Sandi,

I would make a One-pager with a catch all URL's. This way all the old url's of the site will go to this page and you get no 404's. On this page you explain that there is nothing there anymore and you should go to your site. I would not put to many links on the page.

Eventually the authority of the competitors site will go but if you have everything in place you will get it. What you could also do is login into the Seach Console account of the competitor and see which pages have good content. This content you could copy to your site before you take it offline.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Sandi,

You make one page with a "press release" writing that the company is been taken over by (yourcompany.com). All the other URL's you redirect to this page. On this page you can link to the most important places you want on your own website.

This way the authority of the old competitors domain will be forwarded to yours. And after like 6 months/1year you could link the whole domain to your site.

As Thomas mentions below it is a good idea to check which links could be of use (https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/) and contact the most important to change the link domain to yours.

Hope it helps! Regards, Tymen

Hi Becky,

Google does read what is after the break since I use it on my Homepage and the complete titkle including breaks is being indexed. The only thing negative about it is that the words before and after the break are not being indexed together

eg: Tubular Shelves | Easy

You would index well for Tubular Shelves but not as good for tubular shelves easy.  Hope you understand it and it helps you.

Regards Tymen

Hi Becky,

The company wants sales I presume? Content=traffic=sales. As you correctly mention you should add more content. You can also do this with a small introduction text and than a Read More which unfolds when clicked on. A different way is to put a small introduction at the top and the whole story down the page. This way you are not hiding the text and it does help you rank better.

There's a good Q&A about it here on:  Moz

Furthermore I would indeed go for extra pages. In my industry ( Garden And Wood building materials) it works really well to write "how to" pages. You get good traffic, they stay on your site for a long time and it influences the overall ranking in a good way.

Hope it helps, Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Karan,

If you check it on MOZ OSE:

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=prnewswire.com&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=

The site looks ok so. The traffic they have is not very relevant in this case as you only do it for the link. I have multiple business listings on press sites and business review sites like Yelp. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" i presume.

Good luck with all!

Tymen

Hi,

I have one blog outside my company which completely focuses on 1 keyword. I host it outside for I know that if you own and host several websites linking to each other on 1 server it can be regarded spammy.

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Hi Becky,

I just use both :). Youtube is good for SEO indeed. Vimeo is more friendly on the site for the visitors> no ads.

Good luck

Tymen

ps: I found this article: https://www.videomaker.com/article/c12/15696-youtube-or-vimeo-seeking-maximum-exposure-for-your-video

Hi,

I have had similar experiences. Problem most of the times is that the Targetgroup you target on is (too) small. The same people will see the ad and so there are no more likes to get basically.

Hope it helps! Regards Tymen

Hi Zero,

I use Search Console/ GA for that the rankings differ slightly from MOZ but it still is good to show clients what progress you made. It is also possible to export your MOZ rankings to a different tool like Klipfolio where you can track rankings over time.

Regards,

Tymen

Hi,

I think you are right. So to redirect them all to 1 page is good. I just had the same migration to a new site and redirected all traffic to one page on wich i explained to migration and offered them a quick menu for continuing further in the "new" shop.

Regards,

Tymen

Hi Jozsef,

The sooner you put the content online the sooner you will start ranking with it. So if the content, url and metadecriptions/ tags stay the same it wouldnt harm to just post it.

Hi Meier,

This is possible. You can see your DA and the history on https://analytics.moz.com/links/competitive-metrics/4215297.961982?metric=domain_authority#domain_authority

The number here represents my own membership so for you this would be different. An easy way to get there is go to your dashboard and click on Domain Authority.

P.S It will only show the history since the date you joined Moz.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Mark,

For traffic I still mainly use Adwords. Moz's Keyword Difficulty is handy when it comes to effectiveness I use

https://moz.com/researchtools/keyword-difficulty and theKeyword Ranking tool for the rankings.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Faye,

What worked well for me is sign up for number of local business listings such as Google My Business (I see that you are showing up there). But also yelp, yell, and many more help to link your company to a specific location.

Did you also try to optimize the homepage for that keyword with Yoast Seo tool for Wordpress? It is a good addition to Moz.

In addition you should work on the speed of the site: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.devonshiredentalcare.co.uk%2F&tab=mobile

This becomes increasingly important to the rankings.

Hope it helps!

Tymen

Hi Nick,

I would suggest you do both; add property on a regular basis and als write a blog with relevant articles every now and then. I would not delete sold property for as long as pssible but make clear the property they were looking for is sold and than make suggestions of other property you do have available. Good Luck!

Tymen

Hi Iannaude,

I would either rank for both countries with 1 website or rank for 2 countries with 2 websites. 2 websites means; 2 x unique content so is 2 x the work. Depending on the number of products you should make a decision what you want to do.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi John,

I had the same experience and it will not get better I'm afraid. Best FB will say is that you post a post on the page that will stop with a link to the remaining page.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Jonas,

I work with Woocommerce aswell and had/ have the same issues. I Made speciffic Landing Pages for most important keywords instead of using the category pages. Than redirect it to that page. Main reason was that my template didnt have good options for adding content to category pages. I rank well for the terms i made specific pages for. Content I do is more in the range of 200-300 words.If you add Yoast plugin it will help you out a great lot with the pages and the scores.

Last tip: I would go over to https:// it works really well for me and with Woocommerce you can easily step over without loss in rankings.

So; you're on the right track :).

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Jonathan,

I am also in the Woodbusiness and my set-up is as follows:

Firstly I focus on the main category pages: www.company.com/categoryA etc..

Than I made for every wood specie pages aswell:  company.com/woodA etc.. This generates good traffic from people who are looking for specific products in a specific type of wood

Now I am mainly focussing on product pages for my experience is that how more specific the traffic is the better the conversion rates become:

company.com/category1/woodA-productA-size

My product names all begin with the sort of wood than the product (door, table, etc...) and last the exact measurements.

This works better for me than the subcategories.

Hope it helps. Good luck!

Tymen